Christopher Belter: No prison time for man who pleaded guilty to rape and sexual assault of four teenage girls - CNN
He raped/sexually assaulted four different teenage girls.
Convicted of 3rd-degree rape, 1st-degree attempted sexual abuse, and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse in a plea deal. Sentenced to probation, violated the terms of probation....and all he got sentenced to was more probation.
And you wonder why girls don't want to go through all the trouble and shame of reporting the rape, undergoing an invasive rape examination with some doctor poking around her genitals, having to repeat the whole encounter to police who may not even give a fukk or openly challenge her story while she's giving it, potentially have to testify the same shyt in front of an entire courtroom, have the most vulnerable moment of your life get turned into public knowledge for mass consumption, get called a whore/slut/liar by a bunch of people and even "I'm sure she's telling the truth but a girl who got raped is damaged goods" like entire threads here on The Coli get made......only to have the motherfukker walk in the end anyway.
98% of reported rapes never result in any time served in jail.
An Epidemic of Disbelief
A man who pleaded guilty to the rape and sexual assault of four teenage girls will avoid prison time after a New York state judge said time behind bars would be inappropriate.
Christopher Belter, now 20, entered a plea deal in 2019 in which he agreed to plead guilty to attempted first-degree sexual abuse, third-degree rape and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse, according to court documents.
The charges stem from four separate incidents in 2017 and 2018 in Lewiston, New York, the documents state. He and the victims were all under 18 at the time.
Belter was placed on interim probation for two years with limits on his internet use and access to pornography, the documents state.
But he violated the terms of his probation, according to court documents. Judge Matthew J. Murphy denied him Youthful Offender status and ruled he'd be sentenced as an adult, the documents state.
Last Tuesday, Judge Murphy issued a sentence of eight years of probation and ruled Belter must register as a sex offender -- but said prison time would be inappropriate.
"I agonized. I'm not ashamed that to say that I actually prayed over what is the appropriate sentence in this case because there was great pain. There was great harm. There were multiple crimes committed in the case," Judge Murphy said, according to CNN affiliate WKBW. "It seems to me that a sentence that involves incarceration or partial incarceration isn't appropriate, so I am going to sentence you to probation."
He raped/sexually assaulted four different teenage girls.
Convicted of 3rd-degree rape, 1st-degree attempted sexual abuse, and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse in a plea deal. Sentenced to probation, violated the terms of probation....and all he got sentenced to was more probation.
And you wonder why girls don't want to go through all the trouble and shame of reporting the rape, undergoing an invasive rape examination with some doctor poking around her genitals, having to repeat the whole encounter to police who may not even give a fukk or openly challenge her story while she's giving it, potentially have to testify the same shyt in front of an entire courtroom, have the most vulnerable moment of your life get turned into public knowledge for mass consumption, get called a whore/slut/liar by a bunch of people and even "I'm sure she's telling the truth but a girl who got raped is damaged goods" like entire threads here on The Coli get made......only to have the motherfukker walk in the end anyway.
98% of reported rapes never result in any time served in jail.
An Epidemic of Disbelief
Each year, roughly 125,000 rapes are reported across the United States. Sometimes the decision to close a case is surely correct; no one wants to smear an innocent man’s reputation or curtail his freedom because of a false report. But in 49 out of every 50 rape cases, the alleged assailant goes free—often, we now know, to assault again. Which means that rape—more than murder, more than robbery or assault—is by far the easiest violent crime to get away with.